<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
                                                                                     
 h       t     t                ::       /     /                     t             / 
 h       t     t                ::      //    //                     t            // 
 h     ttttt ttttt ppppp sssss         //    //  y   y       sssss ttttt         //  
 hhhh    t     t   p   p s            //    //   y   y       s       t          //   
 h  hh   t     t   ppppp sssss       //    //    yyyyy       sssss   t         //    
 h   h   t     t   p         s  ::   /     /         y  ..       s   t    ..   /     
 h   h   t     t   p     sssss  ::   /     /     yyyyy  ..   sssss   t    ..   /     
                                                                                     
	<https://y.st./>
	Copyright © 2018 Alex Yst <mailto:copyright@y.st>

	This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
	(at your option) any later version.

	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
	GNU General Public License for more details.

	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
	along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org./licenses/>.
-->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<head>
		<base href="https://y.st./en/weblog/2018/08-August/29.xhtml"/>
		<title>The search for a modem &lt;https://y.st./en/weblog/2018/08-August/29.xhtml&gt;</title>
		<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/link/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./icon.png"/>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/link/main.css"/>
		<script type="text/javascript" src="/script/javascript.js"/>
		<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/>
	</head>
	<body>
<nav>
	<p>
		<a href="/en/coursework/">Coursework</a> |
		<a href="/en/take-down/">Take-down requests</a> |
		<a href="/en/">Home</a> |
		<a href="/en/a/about.xhtml">About</a> |
		<a href="/en/a/contact.xhtml">Contact</a> |
		<a href="/a/canary.txt">Canary</a> |
		<a href="/en/URI_research/"><abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> research</a> |
		<a href="/en/opinion/">Opinions</a> |
		<a href="/en/law/">Law</a> |
		<a href="/en/recipe/">Recipes</a> |
		<a href="/en/a/links.xhtml">Links</a> |
		<a href="/en/weblog/2018/08-August/29.xhtml.asc">{this page}.asc</a>
	</p>
	<hr/>
	<p>
		Weblog index:
		<a href="/en/weblog/memories">Memories</a> |
		<a href="/en/weblog/"><abbr title="American Standard Code for Information Interchange">ASCII</abbr> calendars</a> |
		<a href="/en/weblog/index_ol_ascending.xhtml">Ascending list</a> |
		<a href="/en/weblog/index_ol_descending.xhtml">Descending list</a>
	</p>
	<hr/>
	<p>
		Jump to entry:
		<a href="/en/weblog/2015/03-March/07.xhtml">&lt;&lt;First</a>
		<a rel="prev" href="/en/weblog/2018/08-August/28.xhtml">&lt;Previous</a>
		<a rel="next" href="/en/weblog/2018/08-August/30.xhtml">Next&gt;</a>
		<a href="/en/weblog/latest.xhtml">Latest&gt;&gt;</a>
			</p>
			<hr/>
</nav>
		<header>
			<h1>The search for a modem</h1>
			<p>Day 01271: <time>Wednesday, 2018 August 29</time></p>
		</header>
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/09/29.jpg" alt="A view of Alton Baker Park from one of its benches" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="modem">
	<h2>Internet modem</h2>
	<p>
		I checked at the recycling centre, and much to my disappointment, they don&apos;t sell modems there.
		Perhaps there&apos;s not enough demand for them with the local <abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr> trying to get customers to rent modems instead.
		Or perhaps it&apos;s too difficult to refurbish them.
		What ever the case, that trip was a bust.
	</p>
	<p>
		Next, I tried at a big box store.
		I didn&apos;t plan to buy there, but I figured I&apos;d be able to find the low-end price there, then shop around until I found something close.
		The cheapest modem there was $90 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr>!
		At this point, I figured I&apos;d have to suck it up at some point and pay this high price, or something higher after seeing what my other options were.
		I wasn&apos;t sure if I&apos;d set up an Internet connection any time soon though.
	</p>
	<p>
		I tried one more place today, not expecting a good price.
		Their price was only $50 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr> though.
		This might be the modem I go with.
	</p>
	<p>
		I&apos;d like to check around Gateway Street tomorrow though first.
		If I recall, there&apos;s an electronics store on that road, so I might get an even better deal.
		I&apos;m too tired to go look for it today though after three other bike trips, one being to the next city over.
		I could try shopping online of course, but shopping in person is an excuse to bike around, attempting to get in shape.
		I&apos;ll wait to purchase the modem until I&apos;ve spoken with the <abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr> though.
		Depending on their policies and attitude, I might not get an Internet connection at all.
		Still, they&apos;ve got a policy I want to experiment with and I can only do that after I&apos;ve used their service for a while, so I might be mire forgiving than I realistically should be.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="health">
	<h2>health</h2>
	<p>
		I didn&apos;t eat much today, compared to how much I normally eat.
		The beat part is that I was legitimately not hungry, which is why I wasn&apos;t eating.
		I wasn&apos;t trying to deprive myself of food to help with my weight loss or something.
		Since I&apos;m not hungry, I can only assume I&apos;m doing just fine and the smaller diet shouldn&apos;t have negative repercussions.
	</p>
	<p>
		I guess the real question is: why am I not hungry?
		Is the added protein in my diet keeping me from wanting food as quickly?
		It could be that I was craving food because I was short on protein.
		Maybe I was just taking in everything but protein so quickly that by the time I had enough protein, I had too much of everything else and gained a bunch of weight.
		Or maybe exercise is making me less hungry.
		That&apos;d be ironic.
		I&apos;m burning off more calories, so it would seem like my body would feel like replacing those calories.
		But maybe not.
		Or maybe I&apos;m just having an odd day.
		I don&apos;t really feel much like eating today, but maybe I&apos;ll be a glutton again tomorrow and actually have to put in some effort to avoid overeating by too much.
	</p>
</section>
		<hr/>
		<p>
			Copyright © 2018 Alex Yst;
			You may modify and/or redistribute this document under the terms of the <a rel="license" href="/license/gpl-3.0-standalone.xhtml"><abbr title="GNU&apos;s Not Unix">GNU</abbr> <abbr title="General Public License version Three or later">GPLv3+</abbr></a>.
			If for some reason you would prefer to modify and/or distribute this document under other free copyleft terms, please ask me via email.
			My address is in the source comments near the top of this document.
			This license also applies to embedded content such as images.
			For more information on that, see <a href="/en/a/licensing.xhtml">licensing</a>.
		</p>
		<p>
			<abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> standards are important.
			This document conforms to the <a href="https://validator.w3.org./nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fy.st.%2Fen%2Fweblog%2F2018%2F08-August%2F29.xhtml"><abbr title="Extensible Hypertext Markup Language">XHTML</abbr> 5.2</a> specification and uses style sheets that conform to the <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org./css-validator/validator?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fy.st.%2Fen%2Fweblog%2F2018%2F08-August%2F29.xhtml"><abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>3</a> specification.
		</p>
	</body>
</html>

